Philip José Farmer

Quotes

1. TV, the worst thing that had happened to the twentieth century. After the atom bomb and overpopulation, of course.

   p. 186

2. 

   Anyway, women are about as mysterious as a tin mine. All you have to do is carry a lantern into the dark places, and you see everything. But men like to think women are the eternally mysterious. That saves men the trouble of asking questions, taking a little time and effort.

   p. 398

3. 

   Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.

   p. 1

4. 

   You prize rank too highly.

   p. 231

5. 

   Beauty is beautiful because it is doomed to perish!

   p. 448

6. 

   Clemens was afraid that he’d lose his temper and cuss out King John as no one else in the universe had ever been cussed out before.

   p. 171

7. 

   Then she warned her self—for the ten thousandth time?—that she must not be as guilty of prejudice as others. Find the facts first and study them before judgment.

   p. 69

8. 

   And how in God’s name did Santiago find out about the laser? Even Queen Victoria’s sex life wasn’t a better secret.

   p. 209

9. 

   The religions of Jesus, Paul, and Buddha had started to degenerate before their founders were cold in their graves. Just as St. Francis’ order had begun corrupting before its founder’s body was rotten.

   p. 296

10. 

    He looks like he’d be a hellcat in a fight. Tom and I agreed that he was easily the best qualified. But he doesn’t know anything about books, and I need educated people around me. That may sound snobbish, but so what?

    p. 194

11. 

    Chance, another word for destiny.

    p. 289

12. 

    Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions.

    p. 127